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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2005 13:10:50 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Cc:        Michal 'max' Marciniak <max@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?
Message-ID:  <20051121111050.GN20188@ip.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <op.szzwan1w8527sy@outgoing.local>
References:  <E1EZp9T-0008i7-Kg@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <b41c75520511090501nbef3235j@mail.gmail.com> <4372256F.2020800@kernel32.de> <op.szzszvxc8527sy@outgoing.local> <Pine.NEB.4.62.0511092308160.1948@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl> <op.szzwan1w8527sy@outgoing.local>

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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:48:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:18:11 +0100, Michal 'max' Marciniak =20
> <max@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
>=20
> >On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ronald Klop wrote:
> >
> >>>> 7. reboot into single-usermode and verify your new kernel works
> >>>
> >>How do you reboot into single-usermode from remote?
> >>(Rebooting isn't really the problem, working in single-usermode is.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >/etc/ttys
> >
> ># If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root =20
> >password
> ># when going to single-user mode.
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html=
#BOOT-SINGLEUSER
>=20
> Yes, but I thought single-user mode doesn't have working networking, so =
=20
> how can you do remote single-user mode for upgrading your system?
>=20
Using a serial console.


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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